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WorksheetsEmergence of Modern Sport
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Pre-industrial revolution recreational activities included joint activities between gentry and peasants.
a)
True
b)
False
2.
Who could only take part in recreational activities at annual festivals, fairs and holidays such as Christmas?
a)
Gentry
b)
Peasants
3.
Gentry or the upper classes took part in which types of activities?
a)
Hunting, Real Tennis and dancing
b)
Mob football
c)
Bare Fist fighting
d)
Baiting
4.
Which characteristics of society in pre-industrial Britain are not true of the time?
a)
Limited communication and transport
b)
Widespread illiteracy
c)
Very limited free time
d)
People lived mainly in the towns and cities
5.
Characteristics of popular recreation (pre-industrial Britain) e.g. Mob football include:
a)
Violent and cruel
b)
Only on festival days
c)
Simple with unwritten rules
d)
All of the above
6.
Who is regarded with reforming the English Public School system?
a)
Dr Thomas Arnold
b)
Baden Powell
c)
Roger Bannister
d)
Dr James Clegg
7.
Dr Thomas Arnold's aim was to preach good moral behaviour - what movement was this part?
a)
Wesleyan Methodists
b)
Muscular Christianity
c)
Muscular Catholicism
d)
YMCA
8.
What term is defined as the combination of physical effort and moral integrity (sportsmanship)?
a)
House System
b)
Commercialism
c)
Athleticism
d)
Gamesmanship
9.
What term is defined as: the gradual organisation and defining of the rules (e.g. for the actual playing of a sport, as well as the conduct and behaviour)?
a)
Codification
b)
Rationalisation
c)
Rational Recreation
d)
Urbanisation
10.
In the 19th Century, these were sports pastimes for the lower classes which were designed by middle classes to be well ordered, organised and controlled.
a)
Codification
b)
Rationalisation
c)
Rational Recreation
d)
Urbanisation
11.
What myths prevented the development of sport in the girl's public schools?
a)
Medical concerns that strenous activity would complicate child bearing
b)
Unladylike to be competitive
c)
Not considered necessary for girls
d)
All of the above
12.
Pierre de Courbetin based the modern Olympic movement on which English sport festival?
a)
Shrove Tuesday Mob Football
b)
Much Wenlock Olympian Games
c)
Boxing Day - Bare Knuckle fights
d)
Invictus Games
13.
Funding from the state and scholarship systems to avoid being seen as a professional sports person is known as what?
a)
Amateurism
b)
Shamateurism
c)
Lombardian Ethic
d)
Win at all costs ethic
14.
Vince Lombardi, an American Football Coach in the 1950s believed in which unwanted attitude?
a)
Amateurism only Olympics
b)
Professionalism in all sports
c)
Win at all costs
d)
Shamateurism
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